Monday, January 9, 2017

Gaspar highlights homelessness as top priority for county

The new supervisor said addressing homelessness would be a top priority.

"To combat the rise of homelessness throughout the region, we have to build on a network of individuals committed to resolving this issue through collaboration, through advocacy and through the careful allocation and realignment of the resources," Gaspar said. "We have to define this goal before we ever enter the water. And we have to keep pushing, we have to keep swimming because we have to meet that goal."

She said she has discussed a partnership with San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer on solving the problem of homelessness. She conceded that it would be "a major challenge" to resolve the issue.

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What! No mention of the 10,000 low income units that were demolished to make way for market rate housing. The city of San Diego continues to replace low income housing with market rate. That is the problem.

I'm probably missing a lot of points here, but I think homelessness problems stem from:* Living in an area where rents and other costs of living are high and do nothing but go up.* Mental and/or physical illness* Substance abuse * Lack of work ethics* Low self esteem* Badly managing time and money. * Gambling.

I'm all for helping to shelter the poor. But have to scratch my head when folks driving BMW's having a wallet pregnant with cash use an EBT card in front of me at the market. Or why union workers making $30 hr. are in line weekly at CRC loading their SUV up with free bread. A lot of abuse by some means a lot less for others who need it more.

Reminds me of David Letterman when he was visiting Las Vegas. "A guy bumped into me on the street today and said "Hey! Aren't you David Letterman?"" and I said "That's right!" "Hey, I'm from Indiana too!" and I said "That's great!" then he says "Hey, my wife needs an operation and I'm short about $2000. Do you think you could loan that to me?" and I said "Sure! Would you like some gambling money too?" and he says: "No! We got gamblin' money!""

Yeah, while your painting with that broad brush, come over to my house and do some work. How do you know they're union members at CRC, which BTW, is a privately run non-profit that does great work in our community....

Because one of them I helped to become a union member and was a weekly fixture there in line for years. I said nothing amiss about CRC. They don't screen the people in line to determine they're too well off for free-loading food.

It's called NLP or neurolinguistic programming (or "scripting). They are specific words or gestures that are directed at a specific person or group that may have a separate meaning to them. Like when she used to repeatedly wiped her nose at CC meetings. She is a master of ridiculously lame NLP as are all CC members in Encinitas.

". . . we have to build on a network of individuals committed to resolving this issue through collaboration. . ."

I put this into Google Translate. Not sure what the source language was, but this was the output in US English:

"I have no idea what to do about this, but it makes me sound nice to help people I normally wouldn't talk to on the street. Here's some more word salad written by a staffer to make me sound smart and kind."

Kristin Gaspar was the only Supervisor who voted against their pay raise, which was just on the agenda, for the County. All of the public speakers opposed the Board's raise, there, but it went through.

GASpar may have voted NO for the raise because she knew the others would approve it and it would pass. She wanted to look good to the voters who just elected her. Give them time, they will find out what a conniver she really is.

I didn't hear her say she would forego the raise for herself. Of course NOT.